Jaigarh Fort Jaipur

Last week in India begins today! Weird feeling really, doesn't feel like we have been he three weeks. It's gone so fast, surreal to think of how much we have done when pushkar seems like yesterday! Ahh I miss pushkar!
Breakfast time this morning was weird with just 9 of us here, I'm still expecting all of them to appear from their bedrooms …

India - Day 5 - Jaipur
After a super sleep, we started very gently and spent a few hours relaxing on the lawn of the restaurant in the sunshine. Mo collected us at 12 and it was back to business.
Visited the Amber Fort of Jaipur. A stunning huge fort built in the mountains a few kilometres from the city. What has been so indredible about …

21 Oct - 25 Oct

We arrived into Jaipur train station at 1120 am , the train ride was rather uneventful , just the usual being stared at by Indian men and people who hadnt got a reservation sitting in empty seats. At one point there were 8 people in our carriage for 6 ! Oooh it does wind me up !

It was a 5 hour journey from Agra to …

What an excellent day. Bubloo the tuktuk driver picked me up about 11.30am and off we went to the Amber Fort and Jaigarh Fort. They were huge and derelict, like the Red Fort in Agra. They were setting up for a wedding in the Jaigarh fort. I saw an impressive armoury, a collection of old pics from the days of the Raj, the world's largest cannon, a …

03-12 Jaipur

Jaipur, the largest city in Rajasthan is called the Pink City because very simple a lot of the buildings are painted 'pink', actually it is more of a red-orange kind of pink but nevertheless. We take a tuktuk to our hotel and after a refreshing shower go for a stroll. The hotel is very close to the Jal Mahal or water palace. …

Jaigarh Fort
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Jaigarh Fort is situated on the premonitory called the Cheel ka Teela (Hill of Eagles) of the Aravalli hill ranges; it overlooks the Amber Fort and the Moata Lake, near Amber in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. The fort was built by Sawai Jai Singh III in 1726 to protect the Amer Fort and …

Salaam Holiday Makers. How we doing? Greetings from the Pink City for that is what Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan is called. Due to late dinners and smelly internet cafes that reeked of ****, I gave the old Rajasthan Rumble blog a miss for the last 2 nights, but I'm back baby!
Sat 8 Dec 2012
So I left Agra very early on Sat 8th after a …

3 May 2012 :

We were picked up by Raj from our hotel at 9.00am and we headed towards the Old City/Pink City again.

Hawa Mahal :

Raj stopped by the roadside for us to capture on photograph the magnificent Hawa Mahal (Palace of Winds). This extraordinary pink-sandstone building was truly grand, its most distinctive feature …

... and private halls, Turkish baths and separate rooms for each of the maharaja's wives and concubines. We also had wonderful views of Jaigarh Fort, with its walls rolling all along the hills in a manner resembling the Great Wall Of China.  For the ...

... over 300kg each! But I didn't think the complex was that great. The ticket , however, would allow us free entry into Jaigarh Fort tomorrow. Jaipur doesn't seem like such a bad place so far. Just big and busy and dirty, much like a lot of Indian ...

... with a nasty temperature) and we were laid up reading, playing scrabble and recovering. Mark went out to the Amber fort and Jaigarh fort for a day trip while clare had some peace and quiet!!! these impressive structures are north of jaipur and were ...

... this being India, we always found piss/shit wall/corner !!! As we walked out, we saw the temple was shut, so we went up to Jaigarh fort. It was a 25 minute climb up, but well worth it. Our ticket from yesterday also included this place, so the price was ...

... lattice work and inlay work and the whole thing was a fabulous example of Rajput architecture. Slightly higher up the hill was Jaigarh fort built in 1726 and this was a complete contrast. Very fortress like plain walls and lots of narrow corridors with ...

... and from the heat, we decided that we should probably do th least site seeing thing on our list and went to Jaigarh Fort. It's a military fort that has one of the largest cannons in the word. We took a tuk tuk up there which took forever on winding ...

... beautiful building with some interesting features, a floating garden and a huge Ganesh entrance gate inside. One memorable one being that Jaigarh fort you could see across the way built and still houses one of the worlds biggest cannons there. The ...

... and nothing inside but shops. The lake palace cannot be visited due to conservation reasons, so I take a quick picture from rickshaw. Amber fort and Jaigarh fort are on the same hill, one at the bottom and one at the top. The town of Amber is cute but ...

... days were spent seeing everything we could - Hawa Mahal, City Palace, Amber Fort & Palace, the astrological observatory - Jantar Mantar, Jaigarh Fort, markets and the famous cinema, Raj Mandir. Yes, we went to a Bollywood Comedy and laughed, laughed, ...

... longer!! On the way to Jaipur, stopped off at the Amber palace. Looked v impressive sat on top of a hill with the old Jaigarh fort further up. Had a quick wander round the streets of the old town and then hit the palace - along with half the ...